Micro-SD Card Slot Abused As VGA-Port

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday May 7, 2011 @01:22AM from the hack-it-till-it-fits dept.

dvdkhlng writes "The Ben NanoNote open-source hand-held computer has often been criticized for not being very extensible hardware-wise. A community effort now starts to challenge this by shipping the so-called UBB board, which plugs into the micro-SD port, making 6 I/O lines available to hardware hackers. The most impressive use so far is this VGA port implemented by just a few resistors, with signal-generation mostly controlled by software. The guy who did this calls it an 'unexpected capability.' Schematics and source code are available under the GPL."

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Why? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-05-07 01:53 · Score: -1, Flamebait

I have been a lover of open source for years, but I have grown tired of the fractured perspectives and the dead-end projects that waste time, resources and, well, bandwidth. To put something together as an intellectual exercise, is great, but at the end of the day, there should be more of a reason to do it, if you are going to put it out into the wild. This project is one of those that ranks in the why the f^@k would anyone even care, category.